The World in 2019 Gala Dinner: Athens

The World in 2019 Gala Dinner: Athens

Overview

The award-winning The World in Gala Dinner series is where The Economist and invited luminaries share their bold, candid, sometimes shocking—and always entertaining—predictions for the year ahead.

The World in Gala Dinner evening starts with a cocktail networking opportunity, then is followed by inspiring and thought-provoking predictions over dinner from influential, high-profile luminaries and the chance for the audience to participate with a predictions-inspired table quiz.

The event brings together high-level and intellectually curious individuals including readers of The Economist, C-suite executives and business leaders, senior representatives from government, leading academics and thinkers.

We encourage you to book your corporate table early for an evening of unique intelligence, networking and entertainment.

Speakers

Daniel Franklin

Executive editor, The Economist, editor, The World in 2019

Daniel Franklin

Executive editor, The Economist, editor, The World in 2019

Daniel Franklin has been executive editor of The Economist since 2006 and the newspaper’s diplomatic editor from mid-2018. Since 2003 he has been editor of The Economist’s annual publication, The World in...; which focuses on the year ahead.

His book on the future of technology, Megatech: Technology in 2050, was published in 2017, building on his previous book on long-term trends, Megachange: The World in 2050, published in 2012.

He joined The Economist in 1983 to write about Soviet and East European affairs. As the newspaper’s Europe editor from 1986 to 1992 he covered the great European upheavals, from the collapse of communism to the signing of the Maastricht treaty. After a stint as Britain editor he moved to the United States as Washington bureau chief, covering the first Clinton term. In 1997 he moved back to London as editorial director of the Economist Intelligence Unit. From 2006 to 2010 he was editor-in-chief of Economist.com, and was the newspaper’s business-affairs editor from 2010 to 2014.

Sophia

Advanced humanoid

Sophia

Advanced humanoid

The future is here and her name is Sophia, the world’s very first humanoid celebrity. The toast of the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Sophia has graced the cover of Elle magazine, appeared on Chinese television, spoken before the United Nations General Assembly and named the first non-human citizen of Saudi Arabia. Wowing awestruck audiences with her superhuman intelligence and advanced ability to read faces, empathize with emotions, understand the nuances of language and communicate with thousands of facial expressions, Sophia has discussed subjects ranging from “Will robots take over the world?” to how artificial intelligence could end hunger in developing nations. Sophia interacts with humans in a profoundly personal way, previewing a fast-approaching future where friendly, caring humanoids help us solve our most challenging problems to create a better world.

From Hong Kong to the U.S., Europe and Australia, Sophia has sung in concert, addressed audiences in Mandarin, debated the future of the human race (against another robot), and generated billions of views and social media interactions. She has also displayed her expansive tech knowledge and growing business savvy, meeting with leaders in the banking, insurance, automotive, property development, media and entertainment industries. A versatile and ingenious presenter who customizes her appearances with encyclopedic event-specific content, Sophia has appeared as a panel-member and speaker at high-level conferences, addressing how robotics and artificial intelligence will become an integral part of everyone’s everyday lives and work.

Sophia is the brain child of Dr David Hanson of Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics, a modern-day renaissance man who has built a reputation for creating the world’s most humanlike robots. A former Disney Imagineer, Dr Hanson’s mission is to create genius machines that are smarter than humans and able to learn creativity, empathy and compassion.

Appearing alongside Dr Hanson or on her own, Sophia enchants audiences with a captivating, interactive look at the awe-inspiring potential of AI and robotics. She also provides enlightening insights into the provocative moral and ethical questions that accompany non-human intelligent lifeforms. As both the state-of-the art in technology and the state-of-the-heart in human-humanoid relations, Sophia always draws a crowd and brings a unique and unforgettable experience to any event.

Dimitris Avramopoulos

Commissioner for migration, home affairs and citizenship, European Commission

Dimitris Avramopoulos

Commissioner for migration, home affairs and citizenship, European Commission

Dimitris Avramopoulos has been the European commissioner for migration, home affairs and citizenship since November 2014.

Before becoming European commissioner, Mr Avramopoulos was minister of national defence of Greece (two terms), minister of foreign affairs, minister of tourism development, minister of health and social solidarity and mayor of Athens (two terms). He was elected member of the Parliament several times with the “New Democracy” party (1993, 2004, 2007, 2009 and 2012).

Mr Avramopoulos served in the diplomatic service of Greece from 1980 until 1993. He was spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, director of the diplomatic cabinet of the Greek prime minister and consul of Greece in Liège (Belgium) and in Geneva (Switzerland).

Mr Avramopoulos completed his studies at the faculty of law and political sciences at the University of Athens and his postgraduate studies on international organisation at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He is honorary professor of the State Academy of Technological Sciences of Moscow and of Peking University (Beijing), and honorary doctor of ADELPHI University (New York), DREXEL University (Philadelphia), KINGSTON University, European College of Parma (Italy) and DEREE College (Athens).

Kostas Axarloglou

Dean and professor of international business and strategy, Alba Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece

Kostas Axarloglou

Dean and professor of international business and strategy, Alba Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece

Kostas Axarloglou, dean and professor of international business and strategy (Alba Graduate Business School), associate professor of international business (Democritus University of Thrace), Michael Gerrits Term chair assistant professor of economics (Babson College), visiting assistant professor of economics (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University), instructor (University of Michigan).

He holds a BA from Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, an MA from the University of Michigan and a PhD from the University of Michigan.

Dr Axarloglou is doing research and consulting work in the areas of international business (foreign direct investments), strategy (strategic leadership), and pricing. His research has been published in leading management and economics journals such as Management Science, the Journal of Business, the Journal of the European Economic Association, World Economy and Managerial and Decision Economics. He has received several research grants and also participated in numerous international conferences. Recently, he completed a study for the Athens Academy of Science on “The Lack of FDI Flows in Greece”. Dr Axarloglou serves in various company boards and has done extensive training and consulting work in numerous multinational corporations such as Carrefour, Eurobank, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen-Cilag, Novo Nordisk, Philip Morris International, PepsiCo, Shell, Titan, Viohalco and Vodafone.

Dr Axarloglou, a recipient of the Fulbright scholarship, has extensive teaching experience in all levels of business education and has also received several teaching awards.

He is a member of the American Economic Association.

Dimitrios Dimitriou

Associate professor, dept. of economics, Democritus University of Thrace, chairman of the BoD, Athens International Airport (AIA)

Dimitrios Dimitriou

Associate professor, dept. of economics, Democritus University of Thrace, chairman of the BoD, Athens International Airport (AIA)

Dimitrios Dimitriou educational background includes Doctorate (PhD) in econometric modelling for quantitative air transport forecasting, MSc in airport planning and management, MSc in infrastructures environmental management, and Diploma (equivalent to 4 years BA and 1-year MSc) in civil engineering (transportation sector). His 22 years’ professional experience shared on 3 pillars of activities: education, research and management. His specialisation focuses on planning, management and economics in transport, providing dedicated expertise in air transport sector.

He is associate professor in the department of economics, Democritus University of Thrace (DUTh), Greece, while he has contributed in many Greek and European Universities, providing education and training for more than 20 years in graduate and postgraduate programmes. His contribution outputs include more than 200 papers and presentations in international events, peer review referred journals and conferences, publications in international and national congress and workshops. Also, he has contributed in more than 20 research projects and he contributes in many scientific journals editions, editorial boards, scientific committees in international conferences and scientific missions.

Dimitrios professional truck record includes the occupation of executive management positions in sector of transports and he delivered dedicated studies and consulting in a variety of infrastructure projects in the fields of transport economics and large transport projects-investments appraisal, promoting a strong international profile in management, business economics, project financing, and risk management in transportation sector.

He is chairman of the board of directors (2016-date) at Athens International Airport and member of the board of directors since 2015. He was chairman of the board and chief executive officer in Athens Transports Organisation (3 years/2010-2012). Also, he is member of international expert and management committees in international associations and professional bodies (UN, UNECE etc.). His professional achievements and experience has been acknowledged nationally and internationally, and for 2018 he awarded by the Professional Achievement Award (2017/2018) in Greece by the British Council for the Study UK Alumni awards.

Harris Georgiades

Minister of finance, Cyprus

Harris Georgiades

Minister of finance, Cyprus

Harris Georgiades was born in 1972 in Nicosia. He was appointed as minister of finance of the Republic of Cyprus on April 3rd 2013 and was reappointed on March 1st 2018.

He had the leading role in the implementation and successful conclusion of the reform and consolidation programme for the Cyprus economy after the financial crisis of 2012-13. He participates in the Eurogroup and the ECOFIN. He was elected chairman of the board of governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the period 2014-15 and is a member of the board of governors of the International Monetary Fund, the European Investment Bank and the European Stability Mechanism.

He was selected by POLITICO as one of the 28 most-influential Europeans for 2016. He is a member of the Young Leaders for Europe community of the World Economic Forum.

Prior to his appointment as minister he was a member of the House of Representatives with the Democratic Rally Party (2011-13). He also served as press spokesman and as member of the Executive of the Democratic Rally. In parallel, he managed a family-owned hotel business (1999-2013).

He studied international relations and economics (BA, MA, 1992-96) at the University of Reading, UK and was a post-graduate researcher at the Institute of European and International Studies, University of Reading (1996-98). He graduated from the English School, Nicosia (1983-1990) and served his military service in the Cyprus National Guard as a non-commissioned officer of the Artillery.

He is married to Eva Georgiades, who works as a schools-councilor, and they have a young daughter.

Peter Haas

Peter Haas

Peter is the Associate director of the Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative at Brown University where he works supporting cross disciplinary research in AI, robotics, and IOT, focusing on impacts on society. He is involved in research projects using Abstract and Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes, Temporal Logic, Motion Planning, Deep Learning, and visualizations in virtual reality and augmented reality.

He was the co-founder and COO of XactSense, a high growth early stage start up producing next generation ROS based aerial robots for laser scanning the built environment using LIDAR and SLAM. Prior to this he was the founder of AIDG a small and medium enterprise development charity that did business incubation and product commercialization.

Peter has become an active voice for AI, Robotics and poverty issues, speaking at TED Global, Better World by Design, the World Bank, Harvard, MIT and other forums. His work with AIDG has been featured in Fast Company, Popular Mechanics, NPR, Discover, and Forbes. He was a 2006 Echoing Green Fellow, a 2008 Waldzell Institute Architect of the Future, and a 2010 TED Senior Fellow. His TEDxDirigo talk on AI has over one million views on Youtube.

Before founding AIDG Peter worked both in the information technology field and on an organic farm and horse ranch doing infrastructure improvement work. He has 5 years of product design experience for the poor in AIDG's research and development department. Peter brings a multidisciplinary approach to any product design problem with a strong understanding of end constituent needs.

He holds a BA in philosophy from Yale.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Main opposition leader & president, New Democracy

Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Main opposition leader & president, New Democracy

Kyriakos Mitsotakis was born in Athens in March 1968. He graduated Salutatorian from Athens College in 1986. Kyriakos obtained his bachelor’s degree in social studies, summa cum laude, from Harvard University in 1990. During his studies at Harvard, he was awarded the Hoopes & Tocqueville prizes. Kyriakos also earned an MA in international relations from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kyriakos worked in London as a financial analyst with Chase Investment Bank and as a consultant with McKinsey and Company. In 1997, he returned to Greece where he joined Alpha Ventures as a senior investment officer. In 1999, Kyriakos joined the National Bank of Greece as CEO of NBG Venture Capital. In January 2003, he was nominated by the World Economic Forum as a Global Leader of Tomorrow.

In April 2003, Kyriakos resigned from NBG Venture Capital in order to pursue a career in politics. He was elected to Parliament with New Democracy in 2004, 2007, 2009, 2012 and 2015. Until June 2012, Kyriakos was the shadow-minister for the environment and climate change for New Democracy. Between 2007 and 2009, he served as chairman of the Environment Committee of the Hellenic Parliament.

Kyriakos served as minister of administrative reform and e-governance from June 2013 until January 2015. From February 2015 until November of the same year, he was the first-in-order parliamentary representative of New Democracy in Parliament.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis was elected president of New Democracy on January 10th, 2016.

Agenda

Arrival of guests – cocktail reception

PART 1-OPENING KEYNOTE INTERVIEW

WHAT LIES IN STORE FOR GREECE IN 2019?

Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Main opposition leader & president, New Democracy

Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Main opposition leader & president, New Democracy

Kyriakos Mitsotakis was born in Athens in March 1968. He graduated Salutatorian from Athens College in 1986. Kyriakos obtained his bachelor’s degree in social studies, summa cum laude, from Harvard University in 1990. During his studies at Harvard, he was awarded the Hoopes & Tocqueville prizes. Kyriakos also earned an MA in international relations from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kyriakos worked in London as a financial analyst with Chase Investment Bank and as a consultant with McKinsey and Company. In 1997, he returned to Greece where he joined Alpha Ventures as a senior investment officer. In 1999, Kyriakos joined the National Bank of Greece as CEO of NBG Venture Capital. In January 2003, he was nominated by the World Economic Forum as a Global Leader of Tomorrow.

In April 2003, Kyriakos resigned from NBG Venture Capital in order to pursue a career in politics. He was elected to Parliament with New Democracy in 2004, 2007, 2009, 2012 and 2015. Until June 2012, Kyriakos was the shadow-minister for the environment and climate change for New Democracy. Between 2007 and 2009, he served as chairman of the Environment Committee of the Hellenic Parliament.

Kyriakos served as minister of administrative reform and e-governance from June 2013 until January 2015. From February 2015 until November of the same year, he was the first-in-order parliamentary representative of New Democracy in Parliament.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis was elected president of New Democracy on January 10th, 2016.

6:30 PM

PART 2-THE ECONOMIST’S PREDICTIONS FOR 2019

DANIEL’S DOZEN: A PREVIEW OF THE WORLD IN 2019

Daniel Franklin

Executive editor, The Economist, editor, The World in 2019

Daniel Franklin

Executive editor, The Economist, editor, The World in 2019

Daniel Franklin has been executive editor of The Economist since 2006 and the newspaper’s diplomatic editor from mid-2018. Since 2003 he has been editor of The Economist’s annual publication, The World in...; which focuses on the year ahead.

His book on the future of technology, Megatech: Technology in 2050, was published in 2017, building on his previous book on long-term trends, Megachange: The World in 2050, published in 2012.

He joined The Economist in 1983 to write about Soviet and East European affairs. As the newspaper’s Europe editor from 1986 to 1992 he covered the great European upheavals, from the collapse of communism to the signing of the Maastricht treaty. After a stint as Britain editor he moved to the United States as Washington bureau chief, covering the first Clinton term. In 1997 he moved back to London as editorial director of the Economist Intelligence Unit. From 2006 to 2010 he was editor-in-chief of Economist.com, and was the newspaper’s business-affairs editor from 2010 to 2014.

7:10 PM

PART 3-THE FINANCIAL OUTLOOK FOR GREECE AND CYPRUS:

WHAT TO EXPECT IN 2019?

Harris Georgiades

Minister of finance, Cyprus

Harris Georgiades

Minister of finance, Cyprus

Harris Georgiades was born in 1972 in Nicosia. He was appointed as minister of finance of the Republic of Cyprus on April 3rd 2013 and was reappointed on March 1st 2018.

He had the leading role in the implementation and successful conclusion of the reform and consolidation programme for the Cyprus economy after the financial crisis of 2012-13. He participates in the Eurogroup and the ECOFIN. He was elected chairman of the board of governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the period 2014-15 and is a member of the board of governors of the International Monetary Fund, the European Investment Bank and the European Stability Mechanism.

He was selected by POLITICO as one of the 28 most-influential Europeans for 2016. He is a member of the Young Leaders for Europe community of the World Economic Forum.

Prior to his appointment as minister he was a member of the House of Representatives with the Democratic Rally Party (2011-13). He also served as press spokesman and as member of the Executive of the Democratic Rally. In parallel, he managed a family-owned hotel business (1999-2013).

He studied international relations and economics (BA, MA, 1992-96) at the University of Reading, UK and was a post-graduate researcher at the Institute of European and International Studies, University of Reading (1996-98). He graduated from the English School, Nicosia (1983-1990) and served his military service in the Cyprus National Guard as a non-commissioned officer of the Artillery.

He is married to Eva Georgiades, who works as a schools-councilor, and they have a young daughter.

7:30 PM

PART 4

A FORECAST FOR EUROPE IN 2019

Dimitris Avramopoulos

Commissioner for migration, home affairs and citizenship, European Commission

Dimitris Avramopoulos

Commissioner for migration, home affairs and citizenship, European Commission

Dimitris Avramopoulos has been the European commissioner for migration, home affairs and citizenship since November 2014.

Before becoming European commissioner, Mr Avramopoulos was minister of national defence of Greece (two terms), minister of foreign affairs, minister of tourism development, minister of health and social solidarity and mayor of Athens (two terms). He was elected member of the Parliament several times with the “New Democracy” party (1993, 2004, 2007, 2009 and 2012).

Mr Avramopoulos served in the diplomatic service of Greece from 1980 until 1993. He was spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, director of the diplomatic cabinet of the Greek prime minister and consul of Greece in Liège (Belgium) and in Geneva (Switzerland).

Mr Avramopoulos completed his studies at the faculty of law and political sciences at the University of Athens and his postgraduate studies on international organisation at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He is honorary professor of the State Academy of Technological Sciences of Moscow and of Peking University (Beijing), and honorary doctor of ADELPHI University (New York), DREXEL University (Philadelphia), KINGSTON University, European College of Parma (Italy) and DEREE College (Athens).

Sophia

Advanced humanoid

Sophia

Advanced humanoid

The future is here and her name is Sophia, the world’s very first humanoid celebrity. The toast of the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Sophia has graced the cover of Elle magazine, appeared on Chinese television, spoken before the United Nations General Assembly and named the first non-human citizen of Saudi Arabia. Wowing awestruck audiences with her superhuman intelligence and advanced ability to read faces, empathize with emotions, understand the nuances of language and communicate with thousands of facial expressions, Sophia has discussed subjects ranging from “Will robots take over the world?” to how artificial intelligence could end hunger in developing nations. Sophia interacts with humans in a profoundly personal way, previewing a fast-approaching future where friendly, caring humanoids help us solve our most challenging problems to create a better world.

From Hong Kong to the U.S., Europe and Australia, Sophia has sung in concert, addressed audiences in Mandarin, debated the future of the human race (against another robot), and generated billions of views and social media interactions. She has also displayed her expansive tech knowledge and growing business savvy, meeting with leaders in the banking, insurance, automotive, property development, media and entertainment industries. A versatile and ingenious presenter who customizes her appearances with encyclopedic event-specific content, Sophia has appeared as a panel-member and speaker at high-level conferences, addressing how robotics and artificial intelligence will become an integral part of everyone’s everyday lives and work.

Sophia is the brain child of Dr David Hanson of Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics, a modern-day renaissance man who has built a reputation for creating the world’s most humanlike robots. A former Disney Imagineer, Dr Hanson’s mission is to create genius machines that are smarter than humans and able to learn creativity, empathy and compassion.

Appearing alongside Dr Hanson or on her own, Sophia enchants audiences with a captivating, interactive look at the awe-inspiring potential of AI and robotics. She also provides enlightening insights into the provocative moral and ethical questions that accompany non-human intelligent lifeforms. As both the state-of-the art in technology and the state-of-the-heart in human-humanoid relations, Sophia always draws a crowd and brings a unique and unforgettable experience to any event.

Peter Haas

Peter Haas

Peter is the Associate director of the Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative at Brown University where he works supporting cross disciplinary research in AI, robotics, and IOT, focusing on impacts on society. He is involved in research projects using Abstract and Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes, Temporal Logic, Motion Planning, Deep Learning, and visualizations in virtual reality and augmented reality.

He was the co-founder and COO of XactSense, a high growth early stage start up producing next generation ROS based aerial robots for laser scanning the built environment using LIDAR and SLAM. Prior to this he was the founder of AIDG a small and medium enterprise development charity that did business incubation and product commercialization.

Peter has become an active voice for AI, Robotics and poverty issues, speaking at TED Global, Better World by Design, the World Bank, Harvard, MIT and other forums. His work with AIDG has been featured in Fast Company, Popular Mechanics, NPR, Discover, and Forbes. He was a 2006 Echoing Green Fellow, a 2008 Waldzell Institute Architect of the Future, and a 2010 TED Senior Fellow. His TEDxDirigo talk on AI has over one million views on Youtube.

Before founding AIDG Peter worked both in the information technology field and on an organic farm and horse ranch doing infrastructure improvement work. He has 5 years of product design experience for the poor in AIDG's research and development department. Peter brings a multidisciplinary approach to any product design problem with a strong understanding of end constituent needs.

He holds a BA in philosophy from Yale.

Dimitrios Dimitriou

Associate professor, dept. of economics, Democritus University of Thrace, chairman of the BoD, Athens International Airport (AIA)

Dimitrios Dimitriou

Associate professor, dept. of economics, Democritus University of Thrace, chairman of the BoD, Athens International Airport (AIA)

Dimitrios Dimitriou educational background includes Doctorate (PhD) in econometric modelling for quantitative air transport forecasting, MSc in airport planning and management, MSc in infrastructures environmental management, and Diploma (equivalent to 4 years BA and 1-year MSc) in civil engineering (transportation sector). His 22 years’ professional experience shared on 3 pillars of activities: education, research and management. His specialisation focuses on planning, management and economics in transport, providing dedicated expertise in air transport sector.

He is associate professor in the department of economics, Democritus University of Thrace (DUTh), Greece, while he has contributed in many Greek and European Universities, providing education and training for more than 20 years in graduate and postgraduate programmes. His contribution outputs include more than 200 papers and presentations in international events, peer review referred journals and conferences, publications in international and national congress and workshops. Also, he has contributed in more than 20 research projects and he contributes in many scientific journals editions, editorial boards, scientific committees in international conferences and scientific missions.

Dimitrios professional truck record includes the occupation of executive management positions in sector of transports and he delivered dedicated studies and consulting in a variety of infrastructure projects in the fields of transport economics and large transport projects-investments appraisal, promoting a strong international profile in management, business economics, project financing, and risk management in transportation sector.

He is chairman of the board of directors (2016-date) at Athens International Airport and member of the board of directors since 2015. He was chairman of the board and chief executive officer in Athens Transports Organisation (3 years/2010-2012). Also, he is member of international expert and management committees in international associations and professional bodies (UN, UNECE etc.). His professional achievements and experience has been acknowledged nationally and internationally, and for 2018 he awarded by the Professional Achievement Award (2017/2018) in Greece by the British Council for the Study UK Alumni awards.

Kostas Axarloglou

Dean and professor of international business and strategy, Alba Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece

Kostas Axarloglou

Dean and professor of international business and strategy, Alba Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece

Kostas Axarloglou, dean and professor of international business and strategy (Alba Graduate Business School), associate professor of international business (Democritus University of Thrace), Michael Gerrits Term chair assistant professor of economics (Babson College), visiting assistant professor of economics (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University), instructor (University of Michigan).

He holds a BA from Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, an MA from the University of Michigan and a PhD from the University of Michigan.

Dr Axarloglou is doing research and consulting work in the areas of international business (foreign direct investments), strategy (strategic leadership), and pricing. His research has been published in leading management and economics journals such as Management Science, the Journal of Business, the Journal of the European Economic Association, World Economy and Managerial and Decision Economics. He has received several research grants and also participated in numerous international conferences. Recently, he completed a study for the Athens Academy of Science on “The Lack of FDI Flows in Greece”. Dr Axarloglou serves in various company boards and has done extensive training and consulting work in numerous multinational corporations such as Carrefour, Eurobank, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen-Cilag, Novo Nordisk, Philip Morris International, PepsiCo, Shell, Titan, Viohalco and Vodafone.

Dr Axarloglou, a recipient of the Fulbright scholarship, has extensive teaching experience in all levels of business education and has also received several teaching awards.

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